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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
discuss their wages with coworkers. In Massachusetts, the Equal Pay Act also prohibits employers from asking about salary history. Intended to protect employees from being low-balled, Cullen says the law may... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Harvard Business School researchers are offering unique insights into our workplaces and careers. In this world, taking a pay cut can help a career, promotions aren't always good things, and networking may send you to the nearest tub for... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
Mary Wooldridge (MBA 1994) has encountered gender discrimination in the workplace. “I think it’d be hard to find a woman in any workplace who didn’t have personal experiences of it,” she says. As director of Australia’s Workplace Gender View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Rewarding the Top Dog The media, institutional investors, and even government officials all seem to have an opinion about CEO compensation, often criticizing how and how much top executives are paid. But do CEOs really dictate their own paycheck, and is their View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
percent of board members are women. They teamed with Fletcher, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational behavior, to answer questions on gender, competition, and cooperation that have not been addressed in previous research: Do men and women react... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Why do we pay more for an orange with a Sunkist sticker?... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
"pro-social," meaning they are likely to value more equal distributions of resources, while others are "pro-self," meaning they try and maximize value for themselves. She wondered, when faced with a PWYW situation,... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
It is related as well to concerns about equal pay for equal work. Those in favor of sharing compensation figures cite the benefits of more trust among employees, less... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
What intrigued you about the pay-what-you-want (PWYW) model? It’s very unusual for a firm or a seller to completely relinquish pricing power to their customers. Typically consumers encounter a price, and then they decide whether or not they want to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. Money spent doesn’t reliably... View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrea Coravos
satirical essay by Michael Young. Even if Muhammad and I put in the same amount of hard work from birth, I can’t shake the discomfort of knowing that we won’t have an equal chance to live the lives we want. Perhaps instead of merit, I was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
economic equality fosters economic growth, primarily by encouraging consumption among people who spend a lot and invest modestly. For example, the study concludes that the US pays handsomely for the low... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
subsidiaries of US firms is supposed to be taxed at the corporate rate of 35 percent. But the law provides a huge loophole that allows companies to sidestep paying any tax on foreign profits as long as the money stays outside the US.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
lowering what he'd pay for the Abbott estate—until he truly equalizes them. At this point, each should barely be feasible, and he should be indifferent between the two. Finding the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bloomfield Hills, MI A Taxing Question Regarding his My Two Cents column, “My Beautiful Capital Gain,” in the March issue, I’d ask this of Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970): The money you invested was already taxed once at ordinary income tax rates, so why should you View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists." To see their point, consider your FICA contributions. The government calls them "taxes," but it (or you) could equally well call them... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
chopping block. "We shouldn't pay volunteers" was one eternal argument. AmeriCorps members are volunteers only in the same sense that the military is "all-volunteer"—people are not drafted or conscripted; they sign on voluntarily. Once... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance